I have never heard of Kogin embroidery before but the cover of this book intrigued me. I really enjoyed reading through it (so much colorful eye candy). If you’re interested in Kogin embroidery I would definitely recommend this book!

I really appreciated how clear the instructions were, I also enjoyed the phorographs, I thought they were very clear and practical for you to understand the author's point.

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The Ultimate Login Collection is superb. Beautifully photographed with clear instructions of 12 projects. While geared for the advanced embroidered, the book is an excellent resource for all crafters.

5 out of 5 stars. Highly recommended.

Kogin is a type of counted thread embroidery from Japan from the shashiko tradition. The author presents over 230 traditional patterns and step-by-step instructions as well as a selection of projects. For the student who wants to learn all they can about this form of embroidery, the author also includes a detailed history as well as information on the tools, materials and techniques needed to produce it. In addition, the author provides patterns and instructions on developing patterns. This is an excellent addition to an embroiderer’s library and also makes a wonderful gift.

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The Ultimate Kogin Collection presents this fiber art technique with history and instruction in one place. The colorful photographs accompany the descriptions of the process for creating each pattern.

Kogin is a Japanese pattern darning technique, which is a variation of the embroidery technique, sashiko.
Susan Brisco begins this book with an extensive and informative history of kogin and it's uses through the years. The bulk of the book is then made up of two section; the projects and the kogin patterns.

The historical section of this book is beautifully illustrated with photographs and drawings, and is full of fascinating stories and facts. It is wonderful to understand the background of the craft before taking part in such a rich and meaningful tradition. It is important for us to know where these ideas came from, and who developed them.

The project section has 12 easy patterns to follow, into which you can fit any kogin pattern you wish. You simply have to count the stitches, and pick a pattern that will fit correctly. There are some lovely ideas, both decorative and practical.

The pattern section is methodical and well organised. The designs are categorized by number of stitch and purpose. There are helpful graphs and photographs of many of the stitches, making it easy to follow along and create your own mix of the patterns provided.

Overall, a lovely introduction to an ancient technique, which all of us interested in handcrafts and embroidery ought to try out.

Kogin is a type of sashiko embroidery, and this book seems geared more toward someone who is proficient in sashiko rather than a beginner. More illustrations would have been helpful for someone who has never tried sashiko- personally, I was a bit lost. The projects included are lovely and useful, and there are many variations possible, given all the different patterns in the extensive pattern library. There is a good overview of fabrics and threads used, and tools needed. My favorite part, however, was the opening section of the book, covering the history and origins of kogin. Learning about the cultural and historical reasons for it coming into use, as well as the regional styles that developed, was fascinating to me. I'm not sure I'd recommend this book to a beginner, but I'd definitely recommend it to a more experienced stitcher, especially someone interested in traditional embroidery techniques.

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This is a beautiful book. The history of Kogin is meticulously detailed, and the materials needed to replicate some of the Japanese textiles are carefully explained. I was looking forward to trying some of these techniques; unfortunately my eyesight is no longer up to the tiny stitches that are required.

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A thoroughly delightful book for embroidery. It looks at the art of Kogin, which is a Japanese embroidery style.

The book is split into 4 main sections: Introduction and history, Tools, materials and basic techniques, Projects and Pattern library.

There are twelve projects to follow and over 200 patterns to follow in the library. Projects cover phone cases, buttons, purses and more, each referring to the which numbers to use and follow in the pattern library. The patterns are on a grid so look easy to follow.

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A Beautiful and inspiring book, with very delicate and detailed projects. Although they would be very time consuming I can imagine them to be excellent for unwinding, chilling out and de-stressing. The book itself is full of wonderful illustrations and the projects are detailed with full easy to follow instructions. Overall an excellent book that would make a lovely present for any craft enthusiast.

Surprised to find this book. I had never heard of this type of needle work before. It is a beautiful form of art and this book not only gives you the history, but detailed instructions on recreating for your own use. Even if you never make one button, coaster, table runner, or clothing it is worth reading for the history and beauty alone.

A lovely selection of Japanese embroidered items. The book gives a brief introduction of the craft for novices like me. I found this extremely helpful and insightful into a craft I had not previously known. I did struggle to see some of the images on my kindle but for the most part they were clear and easy to understand.

The book has pretty projects for the budding crafter and can be made by beginners like me. I look forward to making some of these for my home.

The Ultimate Kogin Collection: Projects and Patterns for Counted Sashiko Embroidery by Susan Briscoe is a book I requested from NetGalley and the review is voluntary. I didn't know what Kogin was but it is really cute little patterns of embroidery. Using these little patterns can make lots of fun things! I was so surprised! If you like needlework and want to try something new, give this fun little patterns a try! Big projects can come from these little guys! Lol!
Love this book!

Contains historical and cultural information about this traditional Japanese stitch in addition to instructions, charts, and projects with instructions.

This is the book I have been waiting for decades to be published! Kogin is a traditional form of Japanese folk embroidery that's easily adaptable to modern evenweave fabrics, even needlepoint canvas, and threads. While pictures of Japanese kogin are inspiring, there has been only one, poorly written book on the subject in English. That book has been out of print for years. As a result, folks wanting to explore kogin have been left trying to decipher it from Japanese books.

That is until now, Briscoe, who also wrote the best book in English on Sashiko, has done a masterful job with kogin. The reader learns the history of this lovely needlework, as well as having over 250 patterns, all charted to make them easy to stitch. Plus every pattern has a stitched example. With projects and fantastic lists of books and suppliers, this is a complete guide to kogin.

Briscoe realizes that getting supplies for kogin can be difficult outside Japan and gives the reader plenty of suggestions for threads to use instead. While looking firmly at the patterns of the Japanese work, she lets you know about related forms of embroidery to aid you in your search for more patterns.

I am so excited about this book!

I love learning about crafts I've never tried before. This book was a great introduction to counted embroidery. Instructions are clear (both written and photo illustrations) and the projects range from small, quicker projects to larger, more time intensive ones.

Thank you to F+W Media and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

The Ultimate Kogin Collection is a new tutorial guide by Susan Briscoe. Due out 2nd July 2019 from Sewandso, it's 128 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats. The ebook format is available now.

Kogin embroidery is a Japanese geometric surface woven embroidery, similar to huck weaving and decorative darning. This is a collection of tutorials with patterns for 12 finished projects and numerous stitching diagrams.

The introductory sections comprises roughly 25% of the content. The author discusses the history of the form and different regional styles. The projects cover 25% and include attractive and pretty table linens, cards, soft furnishings, tote bags and a coin purse. There were several of them which grabbed my attention but the ones which grabbed me most were the covered buttons. (See cover). They're incredibly appealing and would make a gorgeous addition to hand knitted or sewn apparel or home decor whilst using up the smallest of scraps of evenweave fabric and fibres.

The ebook version includes a very handy interactive table of contents and hyperlinked suppliers lists. There's also an index and bibliography for further reading.

Really appealing book with attractive projects for an underrepresented technique. Lovely!

Five stars. Worthwhile for the fabric crafter's library.

I have not attempted any of the projects but the designs seem attractive and I certainly plan to give some of them a try. In theory this should be a fairly simple technique as a running stitch is used and anyone who has left over bits and pieces from cross-stitch projects should be able to have a play around with this technique and adapt it to their own use. As well as specific projects, such as a purse, tote bag, table runner, buttons etc, there is a design library with both photos and the design on graph paper so that you can see exactly how many threads are counted over.
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